They've made it this long together and look pretty nice. I'd keep them together and enjoy them or sell them as a set to someone that might be interested in owning them.

Mike

Two of the drums didnt come with bottom hoops and they are visually warped.I've seen the foil badges before,I have a couple of maple snare drums with the same kind of badge

What is the story behind these? I've never even heard of such thing. These are actual cardboard?

Someone at Slingerland must've been smoking some good $h-7 when they thought up this mess.. LoLoLoLo

YES! I was gonna post excerpts from Rob Cook's THE SLINGERLAND BOOK but due to possibility of copyright infringement's I better not.

[Attachment: 100528]

[Attachment: 100529]

[Attachment: 100530]

[Attachment: 100531] Like I said,the 6.5X14 8-lug snare is absolutely stunning. Im afraid if I remove the hoops the shell will warp and wont be able to put them back on again. Looking through the SS head the bearing edges are already flattened-out.

I can assure you,my wife thought I was smoking some good $h-7 when I brought them home.Yes Sir

If they are warped, I guess we needn't discuss how they sound. What a crazy idea that was. Must have been something they thought of for entry level kids that were going to do a number on them anyway.

As mentioned in Rob Cook's book, the shells were made from Sonatube, which is the cardboard tubes also used for telescopes! This is the first set I've ever seen and I can't help but wonder how they were marketed. Yes, you could sell off the parts for considerably more than you paid for them, but I'd keep them to remind myself of one of Slingerland's biggest flops...both financially and engineering. How they could ever come out with these "drums" is beyond me!